Remake of The Mayor of Casterbridge 3-11 Block 3 by Laura Foster https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck Please post your comment with textual support for any of the categories. en-us 2020-10-06 02:01:17 UTC 2020-10-09 15:25:49 UTC hello@padlet.com Cara S. https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807174145 Donald Farfrae
-He values people over money by showing the regrowing wheat method to Henchard for no compensation.
"What shall I pay you...?"
"Nothing at all..."]]> 2020-10-06 15:35:31 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807174145 Kristen- https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807184272 Elizabeth jane is very curious throughout the text especially about Micheal Henchard

“What is his exact kin to us, mother? I have never clearly had it told me.”...."He is, or was—for he may be dead—a connection by marriage,” said her mother deliberately....
“That’s exactly what you have said a score of times before!” replied the young woman
]]> 2020-10-06 15:37:41 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807184272 Sarah Brown https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807192178 Casterbridge is a rural community with simple structures that shows signs of modernism arriving. 
"...towers, gables, chimneys, and casements, the highest glazings shining bleared and bloodshot with the coppery fire they caught from the belt of sunlit cloud in the west" (pg. 19)
"It had no suburbs--in the ordinary sense. Country and town met at a mathematical line" (Pg.19)]]> 2020-10-06 15:39:29 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807192178 Amanda Merrilles https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807194852 Michael Henchard tries to make up for past mistakes.

 "I, Michael Henchard, on this morning of the sixteenth of September, do take an oath before God here in this solemn place that I will avoid all strong liquors for the space of twenty-one years to come..."]]> 2020-10-06 15:40:04 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807194852 Family Ties https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807195587 One theme is the recurring importance of family ties. Despite not having seen each other for years, the family ties the bind the Henchards affect them often. 

"I have thought of this plan: that you and Elizabeth take a cottage in the town as the widow Mrs. Newson and her daughter; that I meet you, court you, and marry you. Elizabeth-Jane coming to my house as my stepdaughter. The thing is so natural and easy that it is half done in thinking o’t. This would leave my shady, headstrong, disgraceful life as a young man absolutely unopened; the secret would be yours and mine only; and I should have the pleasure of seeing my own only child under my roof, as well as my wife.”]]> 2020-10-06 15:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807195587 Natalie L https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807196666 Casterbridge symbolizes a new start for Susan and Elizabeth-Jane as well as Michael. Susan and Elizabeth journey to this new city with not a lot of money to their name, but they end up finding out Michael is here and is in fact the mayor. In Chapter 5, on page 23, Susan first hears about how her husband is the mayor of Casterbridge. She's kind of hesitant to approach him. Michael only has two years of his no alcohol oath left. The town is like a fresh start for both parties. ]]> 2020-10-06 15:40:29 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807196666 Emma R https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807204472 Shown in chapter 7, Casterbridge is built old fashioned like but some of the customs of the people there may not necessarily be old fashioned as well. ]]> 2020-10-06 15:42:10 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807204472 Kristen- https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807214686 Casterbridge is an old fashioned country town, and is referred to by elizabeth-jane and susan as rectangular or box shaped.
"What an old-fashioned place it seems to be!” said Elizabeth-Jane, while her silent mother mused on other things than topography. “It is huddled all together; and it is shut in by a square wall of trees, like a plot of garden ground by a box-edging.” (Chapter 4)]]> 2020-10-06 15:44:21 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807214686 Aidan Pierre https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807215496 The Mayor of Casterbridge is set in an imagined version of South England. The Mayor of Casterbridge depicts the 19th century region as slowly changing, where things are slowly being modernized and the previous ways of life are dying out. For example, the once prosperous furmity brought people from all across the region coming to it in order to enjoy the festival in Weydon-Priors, but eight-teen years later the world around these small towns have started developing faster than its very people and the furmity now stands penniless. Casterbridge and Weydon-Priors are both small towns with Casterbridge currently prospering far more than the latter, but in the emerging industrial age these small towns could face a rigid collapse.]]> 2020-10-06 15:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807215496 Emma R https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807221704 A repeating theme is need for secrecy about the past. Susan is very cautious about finding Micheal by quietly asking the furmity women and mentioning needing to make "private inquiries" about him and the secrecy continues when Susan and Henchard meet and plan to trick the town and Elizabeth-Jane that Micheal is courting Susan to marry her again. ]]> 2020-10-06 15:45:54 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807221704 Sarah Brown https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807223907 Imagery:
"There were slate roofs patched with tiles, and tile roofs patched with slate, with occasionally a roof of thatch. " (Pg. 20)
"He was ruddy and of fair countenance, bright-eyed, and slight in build." (Pg. 27)]]> 2020-10-06 15:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807223907 Kristen https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807239676 Chapter 5
Imagery:
"He had a rich complexion, which verged on swarthiness, a flashing black eye, and dark, bushy brows and hair. "
Simile:
"His large mouth parted so far back as to show to the rays of the chandelier a full score or more of  the two-and-thirty sound white teeth that he obviously still could boast of."

]]> 2020-10-06 15:50:02 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807239676 Sarah Brown https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807244178 Henchard can be proud as a result of his high status in the community. 
"Henchard's face had become still more stern at these interruptions, and...he stiffly observed--'If anybody will tell me how to turn grown wheat into wholesome wheat I'll take it back with pleasure, But it  can't be done.'" (Pg. 26)
"Henchard looked at it carelessly, unfolded it with one hand, and glanced it through...it was curious to note an unexpected effect." (Pg, 27)]]> 2020-10-06 15:50:59 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807244178 Emma R https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807253717 2020-10-06 15:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807253717 Sarah Brown https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807269863 Societal Judgement
"...I don't see how you two can return openly to my house as my wife and daughter I once treated badly" (Pg. 53)
"This would leave my shady, headstrong, disgraceful life as a young man absolutely unopened..." (Pg. 53)]]> 2020-10-06 15:57:02 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807269863 Skylar https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807271972 Henchard can be impulsive and have a sort of explosive temperament:

"These tones showed that, though under a long reign of self-control he had become mayor, and churchwarden, and what-not, there was still the same unruly volcanic stuff beneath the rind of Michael Henchard as when he had sold his wife at Weydon Fair. "]]> 2020-10-06 15:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807271972 Naoshin Kaiser https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807287136 I think a common theme of the book so far is regret and past mistakes. Henchard definitely regrets selling his wife off but makes the best of it by becoming the mayor of Csterbridge. But I think when he and Susan decide to rekindle, they will end up struggling a little because the past always ends up affecting the future. 

“No, no, Susan; you are not to go—you mistake me!” he said with kindly severity. “I have thought of this plan: that you and Elizabeth take a cottage in the town as the widow Mrs. Newson and her daughter; that I meet you, court you, and marry you” 


]]> 2020-10-06 16:01:14 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807287136 Katrin Ivanova https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807327646 Elizabeth Jane through out the novel is very independent and self- possessed. 
 “making limited opportunities endurable” accounts for her triumphal realization—unspectacular as it might be—that “happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”]]> 2020-10-06 16:10:05 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/807327646 Hannah H https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/808769472 similie:
"The latter, who remained as fixes in the arm chair as if she had been melted into it when. in a liquid state and could not now be unstuck..." (pg. 31)
"how his cheek was so truly curved as to be. part of a globe..." (pg. 31)]]> 2020-10-07 00:53:01 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/808769472 Hannah H https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/808781993 Susan could be. described as very. opportunistic throughout the novel:

"she asked herself in the present. moment, now that she was a free woman again, were not as opportune a one as she would find in a world where. anything had been so inopportune, for making desperate effort to advance Elizabeth"]]> 2020-10-07 00:58:56 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/808781993 Hannah H https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/808793443 one of the the messages in the novel is the idea of redemption. This is represented in the beginning, in which Henchard sells his wife for five pounds and five shillings. Susan obliges the deal in seek of a better life. This is mirrored later in the story in which Susan returns after her quality of life and her 'husband' are gone, in which Henchard redeems his past actions as he "bought' her back again".]]> 2020-10-07 01:04:40 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/808793443 Hannah H https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/808879736 Casterbridge is. described as an "old-fashioned place" by Elizabeth, mainly due to it's "squareness" and how the town immediately merges with the valley "at a mathematical line". The people of the town are described as kind, however the scene sets the town people in a sense of struggle, noting the detriment of the grain shortage.]]> 2020-10-07 01:45:30 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/808879736 Jaden J https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/812575266 Imagery:
""The sailor was now lost to them; and Susan's staunch, religious adherence to him as her husband, till her views had been disturbed by enlightenment, was demanded no more. " (Ch.4)

"He wore a short jacket of brown corduroy, newer than the remainder of his suit, which was a fustian waistcoat with white horn buttons, breeches of the same, tanned leggings, and a straw hat overlaid with black glazed canvas." (Ch.1)

]]> 2020-10-08 03:44:52 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/812575266 Aaron Schwartz https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/814147460 Imagery:
"He was ruddy and of fair countenance, bright-eyed, and sight in build." (pg. 27)
"Some were beginning to look as if they did not know how they had come there, what they had come for, or how they were going to get home again..." (pg. 28)]]> 2020-10-08 15:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/814147460 Nick Ta https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/814155322 Imagery:
"Henchard looked at him with a face stern and red. But he paused for a moment, and their eyes met" (pg 158).

"Elizabeth-Jane now entered, and stood before the master of the premises. His dark pupils – which always seemed to have a red spark of light in them, though this could hardly be a physical fact – turned indifferently round under his dark brows until they rested on her figure." (pg 107)]]> 2020-10-08 15:14:13 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/814155322 Brooke https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/814285948 Casterbridge, simply put, is a country/rural town that is old fashioned and has many unique features. It was square shaped and "untouched by the faintest sprinkle of modernism." ]]> 2020-10-08 15:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/814285948 Oluwatito Omoteso https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/817049763 The novel takes place town of Casterbridge, a town in the fictional county of Wessex in England which is small, rural, and largely based around agriculture. The author says that "Casterbridge lived by agriculture at one remove further from the fountain-head than the adjoining villagers – no more."]]> 2020-10-09 15:20:04 UTC https://padlet.com/laurafoster3/fnsgrsmks0mh61ck/wish/817049763